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Cc: "Karl H. Beckers" <karl.h.beckers@gmx.net>, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: threading in FreeBSD (acx_pthreads)
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Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> writes:
> > > No, do not use -lpthread.  Refer to John Baldwin's response, -pthread=
 is
> > > what you should be using.
> > That is not what POSIX says.
> As far as I know, POSIX doesn't say how you link to a threads library.

Sure it does, in the specification for the C compiler command.

> > That is not what our own man pages say, either.
> Our ports system uses -pthread as the default, and we've been pushed
> this way because GNU has set it as some form of standard.  All the
> macros out there seem to expect this as well.

Which completely dodges my point about the man pages.

And no matter how grand acx_pthreads is, it won't DTRT on FreeBSD
versions that have libkse as the default thread library.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no